Black Corporation: Joseon

Chapter 787

Episode 787: Internal sorrow (5)

A few days later, Yamaguchi’s Kyoko.

It was late at night and the Emperor was having a private meeting with Taro Konoe.

“So the governors decided to rise up?”

“That is so, Your Majesty.”

“Whoa~.”

In response to Taro Konoe, the Emperor let out a long sigh. After taking several deep breaths to calm the fire in his heart, the Emperor opened his mouth.

“It was truly a long time. Those miserable times when the shogunate, established by a general who was merely a vassal, was over the emperor’s head... Phew~.”

The emperor was sighing to calm down the boiling fire again.

* * *

Originally, the shogun, the head of the shogunate, could not open the shogunate in the capital, Kyoto.

However, the Muromachi shogunate, which ended the four generations of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, opened a shogunate in Kyoto and reigned over the emperor.

Ouchi, who ended the Muromachi shogunate, went one step further.

He dragged the emperor out of Kyoto and brought him to Yamaguchi, his sphere of influence.

Kyoko, built by Ouchi in a more pleasant environment in many ways than Kyoto, which was devastated by the war, was also magnificent in its own way. However, it paled compared to the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.

The biggest problem was that the emperor had now become completely alienated from the people.

In the case of Godaigo Tenno, who opened the Northern and Southern Dynasties era, he staged a coup d’état and abolished the Kamakura shogunate and established a pro-government system.

The reason this was possible was because the control over the nobles and the people was strong.

However, as time passed, the Muromachi shogunate came into power again, and the emperor was once again covered by the curtain created by the shogunate.

There was a court led by the emperor and nobles of the old family who ran the court, but they could only exercise their power in the Kyoto and Kanto regions.

Thanks to this, the relationship between the emperor and the people had no choice but to become distant again.

As Ouchi began a new shogunate regime, the relationship between the emperor and the people became even more distant.

This was because the Ouchi shogunate, which had completely cleaned up the palace, brought the emperor to Yamaguchi.

In the Kyoto and Kanto regions that Kuge controlled, there were many people who still remembered the emperor. However, to the people of Kansai, the emperor was a figure that only appeared in stories and was loved by children.

Traditionally, the people of the Kansai region were accustomed to the rule of Kuni, the territory of the shogunate and feudal lords.

Therefore, the Emperor was able to understand why Ouchi had brought him here to Yamaguchi.

-Complete severance of relations between the emperor and the people.

This was Ouchi’s desired goal.

* * *

“Phew~.

The Emperor calmed down his complicated feelings with a long sigh and continued speaking again.

“Now I can let go of my anger. So, when will the rebellion begin?”

To the Emperor’s question, Taro Konoe answered while kneeling down on the floor,

“I am doing my best to carry out the rebellion as soon as possible. “But I’m having a hard time because I don’t have enough.”

“I don’t have enough? Didn’t you say before that the people of Kyoto and Kanto responded favorably?” ”

The people and nobles of Kyoto and Kanto are doing their best, but they are having a hard time because they have lost so much in the civil war.

“Huh~. That’s a real problem.”

After hearing the story, the Emperor could not hide his disappointment, so Taro Konoe got to the point.

“That is why the governors are desperately seeking your help. If your Majesty shows them favor, their morale will skyrocket.”

“Hmm.”

The Emperor looked perplexed at Konoe Taro’s request.

* * *

Although he lacks much compared to previous emperors, the emperor had a lot.

Ouchi also did not touch the fields owned by the imperial family out of respect. In addition, since the emperor also served as a Shinto priest, the shoguns of Ouchi offered large offerings whenever a ancestral rite was held.

“Why the funds?”

“I would like to see His Majesty the Emperor.”

“Is it possible?”

“I think it’s possible.”

After securing funds, Taro made desperate efforts to secure a meeting with the Emperor through the servants of Kyoko, who served the Emperor.

Taro smiled bitterly as he returned from his appointment.

“This damn castle helped me this time.”

Taro was able to meet the Emperor along with a member of the extremist faction.

“There was a survivor of the Konoe family! This is the God of Heavenly Rain!”

The Emperor was thrilled when he asked various questions and confirmed that Taro was from the Konoe family. And through the accompanying executives, this incident spread within the radical faction, and Taro was able to become the core of the radical faction.

And as time passed, Tarot became an important link between the emperor and the radicals, and this time he finally gained the emperor’s help.

However, Tarot’s goal was different from what the Emperor and the Zonchi faction thought.

Taro’s goal was the chaos and destruction of Japan.

* * *

Imperial Year 17 (1465). March.

The railway station of Omi (old name of Kita River City).

The railway station built in Omi was very large compared to the population of Moi.

The purpose was to supply iron horses with water drawn from the nearby Lake Biwa and to maintain the iron horses that returned after traveling long distances.

A large number of Ouchi troops were stationed here.

This was because facilities related to the railroad, one of the country’s core facilities, were gathered together and Kyoto was nearby.

If a subversive movement occurred in Kyoto, the troops stationed in Omi were to immediately dispatch and suppress it.

It’s still a chilly March night.

A group of people were moving silently between the shadows of the railway facilities at Omi Station.

After a while, the people who were moving relying on the shadows of the building and the iron horse gathered in one place and whispered softly.

“Is everyone in?”

“hot!”

“What about luggage?”

In response to the conductor’s question, some of the men held up thick bundles.

“Good! Today is the start! Don’t forget that you must succeed!”

“hot!”

“Then Sangae!”

As soon as the conductor finished speaking, the people again divided into groups of threes and fives and disappeared into the darkness.

After a while.

“Who are you? Stand there!”

“If you move, I’ll shoot!”

bang! Tatang! Quack!

A loud explosion followed by a loud gunshot.

bang! Quack!

Soon after, a large pillar of fire rose from the area where the water tank and iron horse maintenance facility were located.

“Fire!”

“Put out the lights! Take out the equipment!”

Workers at the railway station made desperate efforts to put out the fire and save precious equipment.

“Some kind of crazy guy!”

It was a signal announcing a full-scale armed resistance by the conservatives.